Railway-crossing.



M. JACKSON.

RAILWAY CROSSING.

APPLlCATiON FILED MAR. 16. 1916.

1 ,20617 1 1 Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

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M. JACKSON.

RAILWAY CROSSING.

APFUCATION FILED MAR. 16. I916.

1 206,71 1 Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

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(\J QBI Q8 3 I '17 17 Q1 6 H0144 my MAXEY JACKSON, TOPPENISH, WASHINGTON.

RAILWAY-CROSSING.

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To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that :I, MAXEY' JACKSON, a citizen of the United States of America,:residing at .Toppenish, in the county of Yakima and State of Washington,-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Crossings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in railways, and more particularly to railway crossings.

The primary object of this invention is to construct a railway crossing to provide 'continuous rails and thereby eliminate the usual noise caused by the wheels-of a car passing over the spaced ends of rails of the tracks now in use.

A; further object of the invention is to provide means for simultaneously shifting the rails of onetrack section, into or out of engagement with the rails of the other track section.

A still further object of the invention is to provide means'of this character which will be simple, inexpensive, efiicient and automatic in its operation.

In the drawings: Figure 1 illustrates a plan view of a railway'crossing embodying my invention. Fig. 2 illustrates a detail view in section of adjacent rail sections. Fig. 8 illustrates a side elevational view of the crossing. Fig. 4 illustrates a sectional View of a rail with an operating arm secured thereto. Fig. 5 illustrates a sectional view of a rail provided with an operating lever,

and Fig.6 illustrates a sectional View of a rail together with its supporting plate.

Referring more particularly to thedraw-- ings, the numerals 5and 6 indicate rails of a railway track, extending in one direction and the numerals 7 and 8 indicate rails of a track extending at rightangles to the first mentioned rails.

Forming continuations of the rails 5 and 6, but independent thereof, are thesectional movable rail members 9 and 10, supported on the movable plates 10, and'bolted thereto by suitable securing means 11, said plates being supported on the plates 12' and held thereon by the usual spikes 13,-which extend along the side of the plates 12 and into the usual ties 14 forming a part of the track 7 1 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 16, 1916. Serial No. 84,678.

Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

structure. One end of each of said movable sections 9 and 10 isbeveled as at 11', whereby the beveled ends maybe brought together 130101111 continuous rails.

Extending, at right angles to the movable rail sections 9 and 10 are the movable rail sections 11 and 12, these sections are also beveled as at 13 to form continuous rails when the. beveled ends 13 are moved to engage each other. The movable rail sections 11 and 12 are .also supported on movable plates 15 which in turn are movably supported on plates 16, the same being also secured to the usual railw'ayties 14, in a manner similar to the way in which the movable sections 9 and 10 aresecured.

The beveled ends of the movable rail sections'are provided with transverse alining openings 16' through which extend operating levers 17, the walls of said alining openings being curved to provide camming faces. Each operating lever 17 has a pivot pin 18 extending downwardly therefrom through the elongated slots 19, formedby the cooperating notches 19 provided in the movable plates 10 and 15, and into the respective plates 12' and 16.

Each of the operating levers 17 is provided at its extremity with'an opening 20 through which extends a pin 21, these pins I also extending through alining openings 22 and23 provided in the bars 24:, 25, 26, and 27' constitute eflicient means for connecting the operating levers 17 whereby movement of one of said levers produces relative movement of the remaining levers to accomplish the moving of the movable rail sections.

Adjacent the respective openings 20 and extending vertically through each of the operating levers 17 are openings 24, which receive the depending ends 28 of the rods 29 which lie adjacent the rails of the tracks, and are connected at their. opposite ends with the lower end of the bell-crank levers 27, the opposite ends of the bell-crank lever extending in proximity with the upper or tread portion 28 of the rails 5, 6, 7, and 8 or in a position to be engaged by the flange of the wheels of a carpassing thereover.

As already shown by Fig. 1, the bellcrank levers 27, are pivotally connected to the supporting blocks 27 by pivot pins 28",

said blocks 27 being rigidly connected to the rails and supporting the bell-crank levers 27, in a plane with the sides of the rails. It might be further stated that the plates 10 are provided with inclined notched portions 30' which receive the spikes 13, the inclined notched portions 30 of one side of therails extending in a direction directly opposite from the direction in which the inclined notches of the opposite side of the rails extend, whereby movement of the movable rail sections is restricted, due to the engagement of the spikes 31 with the straight edges 32 of the notched portions 30.

The operation of the device is as follows: As shown by Fig. 3, the operating arm 27 has been engaged by the flange of a wheel of a railway car, which engagement resulted in the depression of one end of the arm 27 and the rocking thereof, thereby operating the operating levers 17, which impart a relative movement to the movable rail sections, with the result that the movable rail sections of one track are moved to provide continuous unbroken rails, as shown in said Fig. 3, while the movable rail sections of the other track are simultaneously moved out of engagement with the rails ofthe first mentioned track, as rails 11 and 12 of Fig. 1 depict the movement of said movable rail sections being limited, due to the construc tionof the. inclined notched portions 30 and the relation of the spikes 13' thereto. It is of course, understood that a car or cars moving over the rails of the other track section, will operate to move the movable rail sections in a manner opposite to that just clescribed.

Although I have described the preferred embodiment of my invention, I may desire to make such changes in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts thereof, as do not depart from the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims What I claim is:

1'. In a railway crossing, stationary rail sections, movable rail sections, operating levers extending through the adjacent ends of the movable rail sections, bars for connecting the operating levers, means positioned adjacent the stationary rail sections and adapted to be engaged by the flange of a car wheel passingthereover, for operating the operating levers simultaneously for moving the movable rail section.

2. In arailway crossing, stationary rail sections, movable railsections arranged in pairs and cooperating with the stationary rail sections to form continuous tracks, each of the movable rail sections having a beveled extremity, an operating lever connected with the beveled ends of each pair of movable rail sections, means connecting the operating levers whereby they will operate the movable rail sections simultaneously, operating rods positioned adjacent the rails of the stationary rail sections, and operating arms connected to the operating levers, said arms lying in a plane to be'engaged by the flange of a car wheel passing thereover, for rocking the arms to impart a horizontal movement to the operating rods for moving the movable rail sections.

8. In a railway crossing, stationary rail sections, movable rail sections cooperating with the stationary rail sections, movable plates for supporting the movable rail sections, said movable rail sections having trans. verse openings, operating levers extending through the openings, operating arms supported adjacent the rails of the stationary rail sections, means for connecting the operating levers and operating arms whereby movement of the operating levers produces a relative movement or the operating arms.

4, In a railway crossing, stationary rail sections, movable rail sections, having beveled cooperating ends, movable supporting plates having cooperating beveledends supporting the respective movable rails, operating levers connected with the beveled ends of each of the movable rail sections, a pivot pin for, the operating levers, the supporting plates having cooperat ing notched portions forming guide-ways for the pins of the operating levers, means and.

for connecting the operating levers, means for causing the operating levers to operate simultaneously, for moving the movable rail sections into and out of engagement with the stationaryrail sections;

5. In a railway crossing, stationary rail sections, and movable rail sections, each movable rail section comprising a plate, movable supporting plates for each movable section, rails carried by the movable supporting plates and rigidly secured thereto, said rails having overlapping beveled. ends provided with transverse alining openings, operating levers extending through thealining openings for moving the rails simultaneously and saidmovable supporting plates having means cooperating with means on the operating levers for holding the operating levers in position, and means for operating the operating levers simultaneously.

6. In a railway crossing, stationary rail sections, movable rail sections interposed therebetween and arranged in coact'ing pairs with overlapping end portions, the overlapping end portions of said movable rail sections being provided with cam portions, and operating levers cooperating with the cam portions of the movable rail sections.

7. In a railway crossing, stationary rail sections, movable rail sections interposed therebetween and arranged in pairs adapted openings of each pair for operating on the to be disposed in alined relation for concam portions of said movable rail sections necting the stationary rail sections, the adto move the latter toward and from the sta- 10 jacent ends of the movable rail sections of tionary rail sections.

each pair being overlapped and formed with In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

registrable openings having cammed verti cal Walls, and a lever extending through the MAXEY JACKSON.

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